Western Carolina University completed a comprehensive academic program prioritization
process to ensure that we have the right mix of programs to enable us to meet our
institutional mission and to position the university for the opportunities and challenges
of the future. A direct outcome of the university’s recently approved strategic plan,
titled “2020 Vision: Focusing Our Future,” the academic program prioritization process examined the quality, productivity
and centrality of all academic programs. The ultimate goal of the process was to provide
university leadership with the information it needed to make decisions concerning
the best use of existing and future resources to serve the educational needs of our
students.